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    BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- A battery in a Samsung notebook computer P10 model melted in South Korea's capital Seoul, but no people were injured or killed, media repored Monday 

    "After being used for about three and a half hours on a pillow on Sunday, the laptop battery emitted smoke," a fire department official in Seoul said. "The battery burned a bed and a floor a bit, but did not cause a big fire."

    A Samsung's spokesman James Chung said the notebook was the P10 model, which was produced in 2002 but did not give further details such as a producer of the battery.

    "We are checking details of the incident," said James Chung.

    Last month, a battery pack in a LG Electronics Inc's notebook computer exploded while in the sleeping mode.

    (Agencies)

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